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The Hartwell Sun
—Established 1876
LEON MORRIS & LOUIE L. MORRIS
Editors Publishers Proprietors
Entered in the Post Office at Hartwell,
Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter.
Member
Georgia Press Association
Eighth District Press Association
National Editorial Association
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1924
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a Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a S
priceless heritage in after years.
Yea, yea, and nay, nay:—Let your
communication be, Yea, yea; Uay,
nay: for whatsoever is more than
these cometh of evil.—Matthew 5:37.
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We’re thankful.
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We’re thankful we can be thankful.
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We’re thankful for good business.
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“I’m thankful, too, “says oldJoseph
Jones.
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We’re thankful cotton is 25c and
gasoline isn’t.
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We’re thankful we live in Hart
county, Ga., U. S. A.
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We’re thankful God’s sun and our
Sun are both still shining.
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We’re thankful most of the elec
tions for the year are over.
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We’re thankful we have been
spared to live to this good day.
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We’re thankful because we have
already paid half of our 1924 taxes.
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We’re thankful for the man who
pays us when we ask him for pay
ment.
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We’re thankful for the churches
and schools, the preachers and the
teachers.
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We’re thankful everybody and
everything is as well off “as what it
is.”
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We’re thankful there’s still a
bountiful supply of the grand old
buttermilk sufficient for all.
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We’re thankful for The Sun’s big
list of paid-inadvance subscribers
who live in almost of every State of
the Union, over in China and down
in Brazil.
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We’re thankful that the banks and
business houses of Hartwell believe in
supporting their home newspaper by
giving us advertising and job print
ing.
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We’re thankful for the P. T. A., the
U. D. C., the D. A. R., the Woman’s
Club, the Brenau Club, the Mission
ary societies and all the other or
ganizations of our good women.
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Be Grateful Always
Don’t leave such a heavy burden
next year for Thanksgiving day. Be
prompt with the thanks due each
day’s blessings.
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All May Rejoice
Fortunately we have neither famnie,
pestilence nor war, but plenty, health
and peace within our borders, and
even the least fortunate has many
reasons to join in the general thanks
giving.
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A building next door to the water
works plant in Lavonia burned en
tirely up one night last week, accord
ing to Supt. T. W. Wilson and Mr.
Fred R. Vandiver, of the local power
company offices. They state that
the fire company saved the brick pil
lows under the structure.
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Wanted.— Wife for editor of pro
gressive South Carolina daily news
paper. He is about 25 years of age,
wears glasses, tall, plenty of brains,
a fine fellow morally and spiritually,
and is pretty fair looking,—when
shaved. Runs morning paper: works
all night, sleeps all day. Will make
some pretty Hartwell or Hart county
girl a most acceptable husband. If
you want him, applv to local repre
sentative— THE SUN, Hartwell, Ga.
Thankfulness and Hope
Thanksgiving is not, at its best,
what anybody says or does, but rather
what he feel's. And so it is, that all
of us, equal members in a free de
mocracy, are privileged to draw our
inventories together, to total up the
■credit side of our ledger of life as one
united people, and to join together in
a festival of cheer and hearty
thanks for what the past has yielded;
to face the future with a mutual
hopefulne's in what it holds in store.
—Farm and Ranch.
Think of Less Fortunate
Charity has an important place in
the conventions of Thanksgiving. The
largeness of heart, which the plente
ous period engenders shows itself in
works as practical as they are beauti
ful, those who give feeling, doubt- i
less, as did the old Pilgrim who wrote '
of the first Thanksgiving:
“By the goodness of God we are
so fame from want ourselves that we
wish you to be partakers of our
plentie.”
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A Prayer
Give us this day our daily bread;
In prayer we all engage;
But please to have it well mixed up
With parsley, milk, and sage.
And keep this bread from worldly
eyes,
Our pride must be held down;
So please to hide it all away
In a turkey cooked quite brow’n.
That man lives not by bread alone
Is still quite true we ween;
So with our bread include today—
Some cranberries and ice cream.
Thanksgiving
We thank Thee, O Father, for all that
is bright—
The gleam of the day and the stars
of the night,
The flowers of our youth and the
fruits of our prime,
And the blessings that march down
the pathway of time.
We thank Thee, O Father, for days
yet to be;
For hopes that our future will call us
to Thee.
Let all our eternity form, through
Thy love,
One Thanksgiving Day in the mansion
above.
—Will Carleton.
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COTTON REVIEW
Crop guesses continue to creep a
little high with the world -now ap
parently believing that there is a
crop of around 13,000,000, and pos
sibly a little larger. Fluctuations
during the week have been of minor
importance, but showing a sagging
tendency from the high of the week.
General speculation is not in cotton
to any particular extent. However,
cotton manufacturers report that
business is improving, and that
around the present level of values,
the product of the mills can be dis
posed of without loss, and in many
instances, at a moderate profit, and
it now looks as if it is not a question
of the size of the crop, but the ability
of the world, particularly America,
to absorb the product of the mills.
It is generally believed that cotton
above 25c. will check the mill distri
bution, as well as a tendency to check
a new demand for the raw material.
Cotton has shown a lack of interest
in keeping with the general advance
in other commodities, which is no
doubt due to the willingness of the
south to accept the prevailing level
of values. There is evidently no rea
son to assume that business has not
been upon an improving tendency,
and that the average cotton mill in
America is showing an ability to turn
over business with raw cotton around
its present level.
November 14th Cotton Report
A cotton crop of about one million
bales is forecast for Georgia in the
official report released today through
the Georgia Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service. This estimate is based
on the reports of voluntary corre
spondents, covering condition, prob
able yield, per cent of acreage
abandoned, per cent of crop picked
and ginned, and other material avail
able, as of the date November 14th.
Weather conditions during October
and November were unusually favor
able, and the crop is now practically
all out of the fields. Only scattered
picking remains in late fields in the
northern counties. The production,
as distributed by districts, remains
practically the same as shown in the
November 1 report issued by this
office.
Ginnings for Georgia up to No
vember 14, as reported by the Cen
sus Bureau, amount to 919,295
running bales. The figure for the
United States is 11,147,524 bales.
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America is the largest producer
of matches but Japan and Sweden
are the chief exporters. Figures
show that people of the world used
7,675,650,000,000 matches last year
for which they paid $200,000,000.
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According to a report in a life in
surance bulletin, the death rate in
the United States and Canada for the
first half of this year is low'er than
it ever has been in the history of the
two countries. Death from contagi
ous diseases is steadily decreasing
and the infant mortality rate is said
to be lower.
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A Dutch syndicate is planning to
make an attempt to recover the trea
sure which was sunk in the frigate
Lutine off the Dutch coast in 1799.
The treasure, which consists of gold
and silver bars, has been figured to
be worth $5,000,000, and only a
small amount of this has been re
covered. The greatest difficulty is
the sand in which the ship is buried.
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The department of archaeology of
Phillips-Andover Academy, in co
operation wnth the State of Missis
sippi, has excavated the Indian
mounds near Natchez and has found i
skulls of seventy-two mound builders
and some 2,500 pieces of pottery and j
articles of bone, stone, and clay. The I
skulls, which are said to be typical of |
the Indians of the Southwest, have
been presented to the Smithsonian
Institution and seventeen of them
have been completely restored.
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Who cares for the poor and those
who fear God? See Psalm 34:6, 7.
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., NOVEMBER 28, 1924
“FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”
The more one travels Texas, the
more pronounced and convincing be
comes the thought that it is veritably
a state of wide, and varied industries. ,
Texas is tremendous in size; its re
sources and its growing industries are
just as boundless. In the • far
southern part one finds a country so
eloquent as the tropics. There is the
great Rio Grande valley with its
profusion of brightly hued flowers;
a land of singing birds and vivid
vegetation, a paradise of growing
things, whose grape fruit and oranges
and a wide variety of fruits are un
surpassed anywhere. And here one
finds warmth, the year around, with
a deep blue sky overhead and a cli
mate inviting and invigorating. There
is the northern part of Texas with its
hustling cities, its modern air of
prosperity, its cosmopolitan popu
lation, its thriving business and in
dustries. These two extreme parts of
Texas are as different as day and
night; the southern section of Texas
being old and settled, living its slow,
leisurely life of the old south with
the same old customs and traditions;
the northern part of Texas with its
Dallas and Fort Worth, more aggres
sive and setting its pace at a faster
gait. Here one forgets the old south
and instead is reminded of an entirely
different state—, an eastern state
and eastern cities, perhaps and yet
southern too.
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Texas’ greatness consists in such
a variety of commodities that volumes
could only cover the subject. With
cotton, fruit-raising, all agricultural
products, oil and lots of it —, the
pecan industry and thousands of
other things. As a matter of fact,
pecans grow wild in many sections of
the state. Cotton has been the great
est aid to the development of the
state and yet, strange to say, there
have been no cotton mills in Texas,
or, at any rate, very few, until re
cently. Now, they are beginning to
come and they are being built in a
rapid fashion. Dallas, a few months
ago finished a magnificent cotton
mill, which already is producing the
goods, and soon, another one will be
built in this city of greater propor
tions. One of the prime originators
of this new industry for Texas has
been a Georgia man, of former foot
ball fame. Everyone remembers
“Chip” Roberts, of Atlanta, a “Tech”
star of a few years ago. Well, he’s the
guy that has helped put over the cot
ton mill idea in Texas.
Perhaps, one of the most unusual
of all of Texas’ varied business ideas,
is the raising of turkeys. At one
little town, Brady, Texas, in the early
part of November more than forty
thousand turkeys were sold on the
market. One firm, the Maghew Pro
duce Co., is holding 20,000 turkeys
until sufficent packers can be obtain
ed. So famous have the Brady tur
keys become that several motion
picture companies are greatly in
terested in this season’s flocks. The
movie men have been filming the
daily “turkey trots” through the busi
ness section. One of the pictures re-
J cently featured Governor Pat M.
Neff as director of the “turkey trot.”
The Governor on horseback drove
thousands of turkeys through the
A LITTLE FUN—
Much Better
“Is your father’s stomach ache
better?” asked the teacher, the day
after Christmas.
“Yessum,” replied the boy, “it
isn’t aching half as loud as it did.”
Not Frightened
Stern Mother: “When George pro
posed to you did you tell him to see
me?”
“I did,” replied Gladys, “and he
said that he’d seen you several times,
but that he wanted me just the
same.” —Selected.
The Young Idea
Granny (who doesn’t like modern
manners) —“You girls are so useless
nowadays. Why, I believe you don’t
know what needles are made for!”
The Youngest—“ What a dear old
granny you are! Why! they are to
make graphophones play, of course.”
Marvelous!
“Isn’t it wonderful that when we
lose one of our five senses, one of the
others gets better? When a man
goes blind he hears better, and when
he loses his hearing—”
“Sure!” said Pat. “And when he
has one leg shorter than the other
bedad, why the other one’s longer!”
Superfluous
Upon the recent death in a Western
town of a politician, who at one time
served his country in a very high leg
islative place, a number of newspaper
men were collaborating on an obi
tuary notice.
“What shall we say of the former
Senator?” asked one.
“Oh, just put down that he was
always faithful to his trust.”
“And,” queried a third, “shall we
mention the name of the trust?”
Not A Medical Expert
A coroner in Alabama was examin
ing a Negro witness.
“Did you ever hear of the deceased
having any ailment?”
“I nebber knowed no ‘decease,’
suh, lessen you mean de folks dat
cease to plant cotton.”
“The deceased is the man lying
dead there,” explained the coroner.
“Did he have any disease?”
“Oh! Es I don’t disremember, I
did heah dat he had a rattlin’ of de
brain.”
“What’s that?”
“Well, suh, hit ain’t zackly a
misery of de stomach, but hit ain’t
fur from it. Hit’s jes erbout ez
flintin’ of de heart or ketchin’ of de
j’intsS, or settin’ of de bones. En es I
I ain’t mistaken, hit ain’t so power- ■
ful fur from ringin’ in de years en
twitchin’ of de skull. En dat’s all I
know erbout hit, suh!”
By E.8.8.Jr.
town. All turkeys are being sold at
20 cents per pound and the problem
of picking them, preparatory for the
consumer is no small one. A clarion
call for turkey pickers has been is
sued by Brady produce dealers. The
dealers pay 10 cents a head for pick
ing and it is said that any picker can
make more money picking turkeys
than he can at picking cotton. Many
of these pickers average as high as
S2O per day at the work and expert
roughers make as high as $45 per
day at 5 cents per turkey.
I once mentioned the new publi
cation “Liberty” in this column, and
predicted a hard road ahead of it in
trying to compete with "The Satur
day Evening Post.” That statement
still remains true. But 1 will say
this, it has made a wonderful start
and in the few months of its ex
istence it has built up a fine circula
tion and has given the public some
fine fiction and special articles. Any
one that really enjoys reading and
has the time, should never miss
either “The Saturday Evening Post”
nor “Liberty.” Both magazines are
heads and shoulders above anything
else on the news-stands at the present
day and their inexpensiveness adds
to their enjoyment.
The special article in “Liberty”
that started several numbers back,
written by Geo. Cohan himself, in
which he portrays his life story, is
the cleverest autobiograph I have
ever read. It is the story of a genius,
by a genius, and whether one admires
him or not, it is a highly interesting
story. Here is the story of a man
who fought untiringly for suc
cess for years and finally gain
ed it. In his cocky way he admits
he’s good and after you’ve read his
story, you’ll admit it, too. And yet
in spite of the great amount of
egotism spread through these articles,
there is something fine and inspiring
about Cohan’s life. One cannot fol
low his life-story without a feeling
of great respect for this famous actor.
And, another splendid feature of
“Liberty” these last two weeks has
been the “Story of Woodrow Wilson”
by William Allen White of Kansas.
Mr. White throws new light on the
human side of the late President and
he writes with a sympathetic and un
derstanging touch, which is strange
for a “hard-boiled” Kansan. Whether
you admired, or censured Mr. Wilson,
you will get great pleasure in reading
this story of his life.
And now Colorado, again. Back
again out here after five weeks, I
find it much colder and more “win
tery” but with few other changes.
Business is on the increase, however.
Colorado is first of all a great mining
state and for years and years, its
output of silver and gold has brought
great wealth to the state. One very
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THE DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS
OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR
(Lincoln Journal)
It is surprising to find how little
understood are the office and duties
of a Presidential Elector.
With many the impression seems
to prevail that the Electors assist in
the selection of a Presidential CAN
DIDATE.
That is the sole office of the dele
gates to the National Convention.
It was not Electors but DELE
GATES who put Davis upon the
Democratic party at the New York
Convention.
The fourteen Electors named at
the Democratic State Convention last
Spring to represent the fourteen
Electoral votes of this State—the
number being decided by the com
bined number of Senators and Re
presentatives in Congress—were
themselves voted upon in the No
vember election.
The ticket was headed by names
of the Presidential and Vice-Presi
dential nominees of the party, but
they were not in fact voted for, only
the Electors.
As the Electoral ticket named by
the Democratic party of this State
was elected* on the 4th of November
it will be incumbent upon said
Electors to meet in Atlanta on the
first Wednesday in December and
cast their votes for the Democratic
nominees for President and Vice-
President.
They could vote for somebody else,
but this has never been done.
The certificate of the result of this
ballot is turned over to a Messenger
appointed by them, who carries it to
Washington and delivers it in person
to the President of the Senate be
fore the first Wednesday in January.
All of this is going through a
good deal of formality to accomplish
a simple purpose, but such is the ma
chinery of government.
The Electors get a small stipulated
sum and ten cents per mile for actual
distance traveled. The same is true
of the Messenger.
famous gold mine, discovered in 1895
has in this time produced thirty mil
lion dollars in gold. And, it is still
going. It the great Ibex mine, at
Leadville, Colo. In the last few
years, mining of all kinds has been
in a slump. It appeared for awhile
that mining was on a serious decline,
but in the last few weeks the United
States geological survey has been in
vestigating and their opinion and
conclusion is interesting, and import
ant. Their belief is, that the Cripple
Creek district , richest gold mining
camp in the world , has only been
scratched! From an area less than
two and a half miles square and 1000
feet deep 420 million dollars already
have been mined. Are there 420
millions in the next thousand feet
and still another 420 million in the
third thousand feet? Shrewd mining
men say, “yes” and the government
believes this, too.
DANA.
Hear And Their
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THE OTHER morning.
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WHEN I awoke.
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IN MY hotel.
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THE ROOM was cold.
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AND OUTSIDE was snow.
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AND I dreaded.
GETTING UP.
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BUT I finally did.
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AND AS I dressed.
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SHIVERING AND shaking.
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I BROKE a shoe-string.
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AND I started shaving.
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AND THE water was cold.
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AND MY razor dull.
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SO THAT finally.
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WHEN I went down.
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INTO THE lobby.
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IV.'' ceved.
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ANT THE day all wrong.
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AN. THEN I found.
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THREE NICE letters.
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ONE FROM home.
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ONE FROM the “boss.”
AND ONE from "her.”
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AND AS I read.
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1 FORGOT all else.
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AND MY grouch disappeared.
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AND THE work! seemed good.
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WHICH AFTER all.
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IS THE only way.
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TO START a day.
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I THANK YOU.
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The census of manufactures, an
nounced by the Census Bureau, shows
that the value of aircraft products
has almost doubled from 1921 to
1923. The industry turned out $12,-
945,263 worth of products last year, 1
an increase of 94.4 per cent over 'I
1921. Airplanes numbered 505 and
seaplanes 82.